Persisting values between aspx pags

[indyanguy]

Hello all,

I have a form which extends to several pages and users can go from one page to any other page. I need to persist values between pages. I understand I can do it using a Session variable but would want to know the optimum way of doing it if I have hundreds of variables to store.

Thanks!

 

[dace]

I would use

Session("newKey") = yourValue

or you could use the viewstate statebag:

ViewState.Add("newKey", yourValue)


either way, just make sure to cast it to the appropriate type when retrieving it.

Hope that helps!

 

[indyanguy]

Can the ViewState object be used to persist values between different pages?

I did:

Viewstate.Add("name", txtName.Text)
Response.Redirect("WebForm1.aspx")

and in WebForm1.aspx, I tried to retrieve the value using:

Response.Write(Viewstate.Item("name"))

It did not print the value

Thanks!

 

[dace]

Sorry, perhaps I should have been a little clearer. As far as I know you usually use the session object to persist data across different pages, and the viewstate to persist across page loads (from postbacks, etc).